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Quality Jobs In America Quality earnings and treatment by an employer is a product of the economy. Let me give you two examples. I graduated from college in 1989. A few years later, the economy was in the midst of a recession. I was working for the government and as the recession worsened, we began receiving applications from individuals that were over qualified for the positions they were applying for. We were receiving applications from CPAs that had been earning $50,000 per year applying for auditor jobs paying $25,000 per year. As a government worker- my pay was frozen for a three year period. The attitude of management was that if you were not happy- there was nothing stopping anyone from leaving. As a result, there were no raises, more duties were distributed and so on. Management could do this, because there was someone waiting to take your place the very next day. In the year 2000, at the peak of the NASDAQ boom, I was working for a securities firm monitoring transactions between my firm and the market makers that filled our customer's orders. The good times the company was experiencing tickled down to me. I was receiving a good salary, bonuses, stock options and overtime pay. I was never treated so well or made more money. After the decline of the NASDAQ in 2001, there was no longer a demand for brokers as trading volume at my firm dropped my more than half. All bonuses, stock options and overtime stopped. Those at my company that found other employment were not replaced. I was working harder for much less pay. The hard times of my company trickled down to me. The truth is that if you want high quality pay and high quality working conditions, there must be an employees' market not an employer's market. People that graduate from Harvard and Yale are in great demand. As a result, they receive quality pay and quality working conditions. When workers are in demand the market will take care of them. Employers will offer greater benefits and working conditions to attract quality workers. Government needs to create the environment so that business will flourish and there is a demand for workers. How does government do this? It is simple lower taxes. This gives individuals more discretionary money to spend. As a result, businesses will hire more workers to create products and then sell the products. This is not hard to understand- it is common sense. It is supply versus demand. You must understand that if liberals legislated that minimum wage was to be $20.00 per hour- it would not stop management from over loading workers with duties or from over working them. For liberals it is about ignorance, spin or just plain lies. Ben Affleck was recently on Capital Hill testifying before Congress about raising the minimum wage. By just passing a law such as raising minimum wage, liberals can appear as they are helping workers- when in reality they are just doing the reverse. Written by Thomas
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